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CrowdStrike Security Engineer jobs

Four remote Product Security reqs with a supply-chain focus at the biggest name in endpoint security.

$174k–$203k
total comp (est.)
64/100
Index score
Remote US · NYC (SIEM)
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As of October 10, 2026

The Product Security Engineer role

Internal security engineers at CrowdStrike sit mainly in Product Security, hardening the Falcon platform’s code, software supply chain and open-source footprint, running threat models, secure code review and bug-bounty response, and building automation to triage vulnerabilities. AppSec, supply chain and vulnerability intelligence dominate the open US seats, and most of the company’s other ‘security’ reqs are product engineering, services or sales — so the internal ladder is narrow but fully remote.

Product Security is a dedicated team inside the roughly 10,000-person company, covering software assurance, AppSec, vulnerability intelligence and security automation, with separate IAM and GRC groups; the ladder runs Engineer I/II/III, Senior I/II, Principal, Senior Principal, Distinguished.

Worth knowing: CrowdStrike’s own posting says Product Security ‘breaks the mold of traditional internal security’ by focusing on active threats to its products; the Sep 30, 2026 Engineer II req centers on securing GitHub orgs, secret scanning and malicious-package monitoring, ten months after the company fired an insider (Nov 2025) who passed internal screenshots to Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters.

CrowdStrike security engineer salary

$120k–$180k
Base salary
$174k–$203k
Total comp (est., with equity)

Base: the posted ‘base salary range for all U.S. candidates’ on Product Security Engineer, Vulnerability Intelligence (5–7+ years, remote US; Workday, posted Sep 3, 2026), $120,000–$180,000; Security Automation posts the same, Engineer II Software Assurance $100k–$145k and Senior AppSec $140k–$215k (Sep–Oct 2026). Total comp: levels.fyi CrowdStrike Security Software Engineer US 25th–75th percentile, $174k–$203k — only four submissions, partly pre-2023, all levels combined.

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How CrowdStrike scores

Compensation
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Program maturity
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Career capital
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Momentum
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CrowdStrike security engineer: common questions

CrowdStrike’s posted base band is $120k–$180k. Estimated total compensation including equity is $174k–$203k. Base: the posted ‘base salary range for all U.S. candidates’ on Product Security Engineer, Vulnerability Intelligence (5–7+ years, remote US; Workday, posted Sep 3, 2026), $120,000–$180,000; Security Automation posts the same, Engineer II Software Assurance $100k–$145k and Senior AppSec $140k–$215k (Sep–Oct 2026). Total comp: levels.fyi CrowdStrike Security Software Engineer US 25th–75th percentile, $174k–$203k — only four submissions, partly pre-2023, all levels combined.
As of October 10, 2026: Four internal Product Security reqs open in the US, all remote — Engineer II Software Assurance (posted about Sep 30, 2026), Senior Application Security, Product Security Engineer Vulnerability Intelligence, and Software Engineer Security Automation — plus a hybrid NYC Security Engineer III for the Next-Gen SIEM product; no internal detection-and-response, cloud security or offensive reqs. Check the live careers page for current reqs.
Not typically. Engineer II (Software Assurance) lists no explicit years — experience implementing and monitoring software security systems, GitHub and SCA tooling, Python or Go scripting — and is the closest thing to an entry path; Vulnerability Intelligence asks 5–7+ years, Senior AppSec 8+. No formal new-grad security track.
Some are. Remote-first for Product Security; hybrid (about 2 days a week) for the NYC and Sunnyvale reqs.

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